Summary
Love a good mystery? This 17-day vacation to Peru is the perfect escape to delve into the world’s most intriguing lost and found story. Featuring not one, but two days behind the misty gates of Machu Picchu, this below-the-equator tour takes you high into the Andes and deeper inside the Lost City of the Incas to unearth its centuries-old secrets. Navigating the cryptic maze of trails, temples, and terraces in the world’s most famous forgotten city is one for the memory books. Other great finds on this tantalizing tour of Peru? Up-close encounters with llamas, alpacas, and other Sacred Valley locals; vibrant, handwoven textiles in the former Inca Empire capital of Cusco; bold, multicultural cuisine in the foodie capital of Lima; and a warm welcome inside a traditional family home for an authentic taste of Peruvian hospitality. There’s more to squawk about when you combine the wonder of the Andes with the wilderness of the Amazon. Canopy walks, canoe rides, and higher speed motorboat jaunts offer varying perspectives of the macaws, monkeys, and myriad of other rainforest creatures you’ll discover when you start your tour of Peru in the Amazon. When satisfying your inner historian, don’t forget your inner naturalist. Cruise around the famed Galápagos archipelago, where you’ll share the shores with every native species from the blue-footed boobies to the pint-size penguin. A meet-and-greet with a colony of sea lions seals the deal on this wondrous extension to your Peru vacation.
Short Itinerary / Route
- Day 1
- Arrive In Lima, Peru
- Day 2
- Lima–Puerto Maldonado–Hacienda Concepción
- Day 3
- Hacienda Concepción
- Day 4
- Hacienda Concepción
- Day 5
- Hacienda Concepción–Puerto Maldonado–Lima
- Day 6
- Lima
- Day 7
- Lima–Cusco–Sacred Valley
- Day 8
- Sacred Valley–Machu Picchu
- Day 9
- Machu Picchu–Cusco
- Day 10
- Cusco
- Day 11
- Cusco–Lima–Quito, Ecuador
- Day 12
- Quito
- Day 13
- Quito–Baltra
- Day 14
- Cruising: Genovesa Island
- Day 15
- Cruising: South Plaza & Santa Fé
- Day 16
- Cruising: Bachas Beach–Baltra
- Day 17
- Guayaquil
Countries (2): Ecuador, Peru
Travel Cities (13): Cusco, Galapagos Islands, Guayaquil, Lima, Machu Picchu, Nazca, Ollantaytambo, Pisco, Puerto Maldonado, Quito, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Sacsayhuamán, Santo Domingo